International Business Machines Corporation
Workload management in networked storage systems

Abstract:

Managing workloads at the processor core level by identifying host-to-core relationships and corresponding virtual machines of a host cluster. NVMe-oF protocols provide for communications between host cluster and target storage over a network. I/O queues and corresponding physical hosts are evaluated for intra-cluster migration of VMs to relieve processor core overload and underutilization. A VM migration plan is implemented by host cluster hypervisors.